Docker Acquires SocketPlane for SDN Smarts

PUB. DATE

February 2015

SOURCE

Telecom Mergers & Acquisitions;Feb2015, p13

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article focuses on the acquisition of SocketPlane, a software company, by technology company Docker Inc. Topics include the networking efforts for the application programming interfaces (APIs), the comment of Solomon Hykes of Docker on networking and the Docker partner ecosystem, and the statement of Madhu Venugopal of SocketPlane on supporting the partner ecosystem for the creation of networking solutions.

ACCESSION #

101662251

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